Clonfert Diocese’s
Children’s Art Competition 2023

Kindly sponsored by Ballinasloe Credit Union, Garbally View Nursing Home, Gullane’s Hotel, Hubert Dolan Elecrical, Salmon’s Department Store, Ballinasloe, and St. Grellan’s (Ballinasloe & District) Council of the Knights of St. Columbanus
Bishop Michael Duignan accompanied by John Weldon (left – representing St. Grellan’s Council of The Knights of St. Columbanus, who administered the competition) and Mr. Sean Maden, Chairperson, Ballinasloe Credit Union, representing all sponsors (see below) with our budding artists!
Rose Craughwell, St. Feichin’s NS, Abbey-Duniry parish receiving a Children’s Bible from Bishop Michael after she claimed a First Prize in the Clonfert Diocese’s Children’s Art Competition.
Declan Gately of Laurencetown NS, Laurenctown-Kiltormer parishes, receiving his winner’s certificate from Mr. Sean Madden, Chairperson, Ballinasloe Credit Union. Declan was another First Prize winner.

Bishop of Clonfert, + Michael Duignan, with sponsors (sitting left to right), Dermot Salmon (Salmon’s Department Store), Fiona Dolan (Hubert Dolan Electrical) and Thomas Gullane (Gullane’s Hotel, Ballinasloe), and standing, Kevin Folan, CFO, Ballinasloe Credit Union, John Coughlan (representing Garbally View Nursing Home, Ballinasloe) and John Weldon (representing St. Grellan’s Council of The Knights of St. Columbanus) at the launch of the Clonfert Diocese’s 2023 Children’s Art Competition in Gullane’s Hotel, Ballinasloe on Monday 27th March. 

Competition Results 2023

Category A – 5th & 6th  Class children
 1st    Name:   Katie Cooney-Hyland
          School:  Newtown NS          
Parish:   Ballinasloe-Creagh

2nd   Name:   Angelica Feeney
          School:  Ballymacward NS   
Parish:   Ballymacward-Gurteen

3rd    Name:  Hannah Boyle
          School:  Newtown NS            
Parish:  Ballinasloe-Creagh

Category B – 5th & 6th Class children

1st    Name:   Rachel Blackweir
School:  Castlesampson NS       
Parish:   Taughmaconnell

2nd  Name:   Sean Blackweir
School:  Castlesampson NS
        Parish:   Taughmaconnell

Highly Commended (5th & 6th Class)

Ballymacward NS, Ballymacward-Gurteen parish
Ella Kelly, Catherine Irwin & Jemma Kenney

Castlesampson NS, Taughmaconnell parish
Amy Cunningham, Ava Cleary & Michael Haverty

Creagh NS, Ballinasloe-Creagh parish
Isabel V & Seren George

Newtown NS, Ballinasloe-Creagh parish
Anna Davis & I.J. Stehel

Scoil an Chroi Naofa, Ballinasloe-Creagh parish
Christian Polak , Maria Eduarda Rodrigues, Maja & Tiernan Fallon

St. Feichin’s NS, Abbey-Duniry parish
Grace Killeen & Lauren Kiely

St. Patrick’s NS, Fohenagh-Killure parish
Amber Dooley & Lily Noone

St. Patrick’s NS, Kiltormer-Lawrencetown parish
Anthony Mannion & Lilian Ojinnaka

Category C – 3rd and 4th Class children

1st      Name:  Declan Gately
           School:  Lawrencetown NS   
Parish:  Lawrencetown-Kiltormer

2nd   Name:  Eva Quinn
           School:  St. Patrick’s NS          
Parish:  Kiltormer-Lawrencetown

3rd    Name:   Abigail Prince
           School:  Creagh NS                  
Parish:  Ballinasloe-Creagh

Category D – 3rd & 4th Class children

1st      Name:   Rose Craughwell
           School:   St. Feichin’s NS           
Parish:   Abbey-Duniry

2nd   Name:    Brooke Bradley
           School:   Scoil an Chroi Naofa 
 Parish:    Ballinasloe-Creagh

Highly Commended (3rd & 4th Class)

Home-schooled Children
Matthew McQuaid-Bruen,Kilnadeema, Loughrea.

Ballymacward NS, Ballymacward-Gurteen parish
Ciara Quinn, Claire Hillary, Hannah Mitchell & Katie O’Dea

Castlesampson NS, Taughmaconnell parish
Aisling Cleary

Creagh NS, Ballinasloe-Creagh parish
Aoibhinn Nevin, Emma Connolly & Parthenia David
Cameron Moclair, Finn Cormican, Meabh Duffy & Nevin Smijo

St. Feichin’s NS, Abbey-Duniry parish
Adam Archbold Abberton & Evan Kelly

St. Patrick’s NS, Fohenagh-Killure parish
Mark Gerrard, Mark Lohan & Nathan Kelly

St. Patrick’s NS, Kiltormer-Lawrencetown parish
Abbie Guinan, Manus Finnerty & Mia Ryan

Prize-giving Ceremony

The Prize-giving ceremony took place in Gullane’s Hotel, Ballinasloe, on Friday 16th June 8 – 8.45 pm and was integrated into a social gathering that also celebrated children from around the Clonfert diocese becoming Young Pioneers.

All children who were highly commended were awarded a certificate.

All children awarded a 1st, 2nd or 3rd prize also received an Art Hamper voucher and a bible for their school / class room. 

Expression of Appreciation

Our thanks to all principals, teachers, SNAs, school secretaries,  other school personnel, school chaplains, parents and guardians who encouraged participation.  In excess of three hundred and fifty entries were received.

Our thanks to this year’s sponsors:   Ballinasloe Credit Union, Dolan’s Electrical, Ballinasloe, Garbally View Nursing Home, Ballinasloe, Gullane’s Hotel, Ballinasloe, St. Grellan’s Council (Ballinasloe & District Council) of The Knights of St. Columbanus, and Dermot Salmon, Salmon’s Dept. Store, Ballinasloe.

Our thanks too to St. Grellan’s (Ballinasloe & District) Council of The Knights of St. Columbanus for administering the competition for the Clonfert diocese.

Posted: 18th June 2023

Competition Details

(posted 25th April 2023)

Introduction

This competition is open to all children (3rd to 6th Class) attending a primary school in the Clonfert Diocese and in the parish of Moore-Clonfad (Tuam Diocese), and to all children of similar age (8 to 13 years) who are being home-schooled and residing in a parish of the Clonfert diocese.

Categories

The competition is divided into four categories:
* Category A – Children in 5th  or 6th Class
* Category B – Children in 5th or 6th Class with Additional Educational Needs
* Category C – Children in 3rd or 4th Class
* Category D – Children in 3rd or 4th Class with Additional Educational Needs

Choice of Subjects

Categories A & B

  1. Mary of Magdala meets Jesus (John 20:11-17)
  2. The Holy Spirit comes to the disciples (Acts 2:1-4)
  3. My favourite saint from the bible (Old Testament characters can be included).
  4. Jesus calms the storm (Mark 5:35-39)

Categories C & D

  1. Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth (Luke 2:39-45)
  2. A scene from my favourite bible story
  3. Zacchaeus meets Jesus (Luke 19:1-10)
  4. Jesus ascends into heaven (Luke 24:50-53)

Prizes

A prize-winning certificate will be awarded to the child who presents the best entry from each school.

A prize-winning certificate will also be awarded to the child who presents the best entry from among the children who are being home-schooled.

First Prize (all four categories)   

A Winner’s Certificate and an Art Hamper Voucher (which can be used to purchase paints, colouring markers, stetch pad, pens, pencils etc.) to the value of €50.00.

Second Prize (all four categories)

A Runners-up Certificate and an Art Hamper Voucher (which can be used to purchase paints, colouring markers, stetch pad, pens, pencils etc.) to the value of €35.00.

Third Prize (all four categories)

A Runners-up Certificate and an Art Hamper Voucher (which can be used to purchase paints, colouring markers, stetch pad, pens, pencils etc.) to the value of €25.00.

School Prizes

First, Second and Third Prize Winners in each category will also win a copy of The Catholic Children’s Bible (St. Mary’s Press edition) for their classroom.

Closing Date for Entries

Friday 26th May 2023.

Prize-giving Ceremony

Friday 16th June 2023
8 – 9 pm, Gullane’s Hotel, Ballinasloe.
The prize-giving ceremony is being integrated into a Social Gathering that will follow a special Mass at 7 pm in St. Michael’s Church, Ballinasloe. For more details visit www.creideamh.ie/pioneers .

Entry Form (click the icon to access)

Clonfert Art Competition – Application Form 2023Download

Terms and Conditions

1. The closing date for entries is Friday 26th May 2023. Entries received after this date will not be submitted to the judges.

2. The judges are seeking the child’s interpretation, mindful of the person of and mission of Jesus.

3. This competition is reserved to children living in or attending a school in the Clonfert diocese or the parish of Moore-Clonfad (Tuam diocese).

4.  Children of all Christian denominations, other world faiths and of families who do not hold a religious world view are welcome to enter.

5.  Child’s name, class and school must be clearly printed on the entry form provided (see above) and the entry form must be stapled to the back of the art work.   Art work with incomplete entry forms will not be considered.

6. All entries must be submitted on either an A3 or A4 page (420 x 297mm). Portrait or landscape is acceptable.

7. All art work must be certified by a teacher/SNA/facilitator or parent/guardian as being the unaided and original work of the entrant.

8. The art work can be painted or drawn, in pencil, charcoal, pen, ink, felt-tip marker, crayon, pastel, water colour, gouache, acrylics, oils, poster colour or collage. Prints done from a lino block, wood block or any other method will also be accepted. No computer aided design (CAD) may be entered.

9. It should be noted that once artwork is submitted it becomes the property of  the Clonfert Diocese.  The art  may be presented in various formats by the diocese and competition sponsors and will not be returned to children, families or schools, except at its sole discretion.

10. Word bubbles may be used and favourite saints (Categories A & B, No. 3) and favourite bible scenes (Categories C & D, No. 2) should be named.

11. All entries are accepted as original works.   The competition organisers or sponsors are not responsible for any breach of copyright.  

12. Each child may only submit one entry.

13. Please hand deliver (normal business hours) or post entries to one of the following:
       
Clonfert Children’s Art Competition,
c/o The Presbytery,
 Dunlo St.,
 Ballinasloe.
Co. Galway.
H53 VX78

Clonfert Children’s Art Competition,
c/o Loughrea Parish Office,
The Presbytery,
St. Brendan’s Cathedral,
Loughrea , Co. Galway.
H62 EH63.
This office is open Monday to Friday 9.30 to 5.30 pm.

Clonfert Children’s Art Competition
Portumna Parish Office,
c/o The Parochial House,
Dunkellin Terrace,
Portumna, Co. Galway.
H53 F584.


Entries from each school must be placed in separate envelopes, i.e. according to category .

14.   The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into. 

15. A Prize-giving ceremony will take place during a Social Gathering in Gullane’s Hotel, Ballinasloe, on the evening of Friday 16th June 2023. Prize-winners will be notified through their schools / parents (home-schoolers).

PowerPoint Presentation

Click below to access a short PowerPoint presentation to assist teachers and parents introduce this competition to 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Class pupils.

Childrens-Art-Competition-2023Download

Further Enquiries

Please contact John Weldon, Clonfert Diocese’s Children’s Art Competition Liaison Person @ 087 9068032 / admin@creideamh.ie

2021 & 2020 CREIDEAMH CHILDREN’s
ART COMPETITON RESULTS

Category A
1st:  Isobel Dermody, Cooloo NS, Moylough.
2nd:  Kate O’Sullivan, Killimor NS, Killimor.
3rd:  Conor O’Cleirigh, Scoil Ui Cheithearnaigh, Ballinasloe.

Ciara O’Sullivan (Kate’s mother), Sean Kelly (St. Grellan’s (Ballinasloe & District) Council of the Knights of St. Columbanus), Kate O’Sullivan (2nd Prize Winner, CREIDEAMH Children’s Art Competition 2021, sponsored by Veritas & St. Grellan’s Council) Aisling Thornton (Principal, Killimor NS), Fr. Ciaran Kitching PP and Justin Harkin (St. Grellan’s Council & CREIDEAMH Network) celebrating Kate’s success at Killimor NS.
Padraic Kilduff (St. Grellan’s (Ballinasloe & District) Council of the Knights of St. Columbanus & CREIDEAMH Network), Conor O’Cleirigh  (3rd Prize Winner, CREIDEAMH Children’s Art Competition 2021, sponsored by Veritas & St. Grellan’s Council) Ruairi O’hAnnluain, Príomhoide, Scoil Uí Cheithearnaigh, Ballinasloe and John Coughan (St. Grellan’s Council & CREIDEAMH Network) celebrating Conor’s success at Scoil Uí Cheithearnaigh.

Category B
Joint 1st:  Patrick Stokes & Brian Óg McGarvey, Tisrara NS, Ballyforan-Dysart-Tisrara.

Congratulations to the winners, their teachers, school communities, parents and families. Condolences to all who experienced disappointment on not winning on this occasion.

2020 Winners

Mr Thomas Murray, Principal, Fr. Francis Beirne PP, Chairperson of The Board of Management, Ms Finlan, 4th Class Teacher and Mr. John Weldon, CREIDEAMH Faith & Friendship Initiaitlve, Greater Ballinasloe Area with puplis of Ballyforan NS following their success in the CREIDEAMH 2020 Children’s Art Competition.
Fr. Tensin Perera, Caltra, Ms Gabrielle Boner, Principal, Killasolan NS, and Mr John Weldon, CREIDEAMH Faith & Friendship Initiaitlve, Greater Ballinasloe Area, with puplis of Killasolan NS, Caltra, Ballinasloe, following their success in the CREIDEAMH 2020 Children’s Art Competition.

First Prize: 
Mia Kelly,
Ballyforan NS,
Ballyforan-Dysart-Tisrara parish

Second Prize: 
Carly Higgins,
Killasolan NS,
Ahascragh-Caltra parish.

Third Prize: 
Laoise Fines,
Ballyforan NS,
Ballyforan-Dysart-Tisrara parish.

Fourth Prize: 
Alison Lawlor,
Killasolan NS,
Ahascragh-Caltra parish

Launch Photo 2020

Fr. John Garvey PP, Friends of CREIDEAMH.IE and some 3rd, 4th and 5th Class children of Ballinasloe-Creagh parish following the launch. Our thanks to parents and teachers for facilitating the participation of the children.

Updated: 25th April 2023